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In quantum mechanics, a many-body state is a type of quantum state which describes a system composed of more than two particles. Many-body states play a central role in solutions and analyses of the quantum many-body problem. Unlike in classical mechanics, quantum particles can be entangled wherein the variables describing them are correlated, hence the many-body state is necessarily more complicated than any classical many-body situation. There are a number of different kinds of many-body state that are important to current research, depending on the attributes of the system in question.


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The quantum state describing particles is a single wave function.


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